Nope, .Net FX 3.0 has nothing to do with Vista, it's a completely seperate product bit.

Sheva

I know it's a separate product. But Vista is supposed to ship with the .NET Framework 3.0 preinstalled... so that would be hard if the Framework hasn't been completed. So even if they are completely separate products (which they are), i'd imagine that the RTM
of Vista can't happen until the Framework itself has RTM'ed.

They certainly won't RTM Vista with a RC version of the Framework preinstalled right?